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i have seen four cats alive (black, white calico, ginger longhair, tabby with white socks), one cat dead (tabby with white socks, no relation). you can tell a half-feral barn cat from a normal housecat by how close it lets you get. of...
I've had the song I'm currently listening to and, if idle, the last song played displayed on my home page for a while now. Initially, it was powered by last.fm. As I've built my own scrobbler, I populated the element from my own data....
Hey all! This week I joined Jeff Cannata and Christian Spicer for an episode of DLC primarily focused on the layoffs at Xbox. It’s a heavy topic, and one I obviously feel very strongly about if you follow me anywhere or have heard me...
For Glaugust: Magic Amulets.Alfred KubinIn his writings, Hierophant Linus delineated two orders of Angels: the Celestial and the Terrestrial. Celestial Angels are powers second only to God, being of the First and Last, emanations of that...
Say you go jump to a header in org-mode somewhere with C-c C-o. Did you know that you can go back with C-c &? And that it has history, so you can keep going back?? Years of isearch-backwards… wasted. Mind blown. 🤯
Previously, flipping a record whilst I'm trying to work was super tedious and irritating. Now it's an opportunity to get out of my chair for a few seconds. Is this optimism?146 words · 1 image
Silent as the Grave, publisher Centipede's latest edition of Cornell Woolrich short fiction, is available now. I wrote a substantial introduction for this volume and was able to get a few particular favorite stories in here, including...
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t...
“June gloom,” i.e. fog and clouds on Pacific Northwest coasts in late spring and early summer, is a well known pattern. But some Junes, we Inland Northwest denizens get a little taste as well. A friend and I got a very welcome taste of...
It’s crazy to think that I used to post on here every single day. Maybe I ran out of things to say? No matter. I am back to give this another go. I’m still watching Fear The Walking Dead (I’ve been watching an episode every evening since...
And the Canadian reading continues! I read The Book of Eve (1973) by Constance Beresford-Howe on the plane home from Canada having picked it up in Fair’s Fair in Calgary. It was one of the bookshops that very considerately had bookcases...
Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar for a very long time. Typically we treat Nov 22 as our "real" anniversary (the...
For the last 6 or so months I’ve been saying all over the internet (this blog, enworld, Blue Sky) that the Cosmere TTRPG’s use of the 3 action economy had piqued my curiosity in Paizo’s 2e *finder systems. This last Friday, I FINALLY got...
When I was younger, a teenager maybe, that time of life when angst and sullenness are most likely to define our personalities, I remember asking my cousin what she thought happened when we died. Heaven, Hell, Limbo, Nirvana,...
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can’t discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers. We’ve mapped the stars, and though we haven’t named every single asteroid, the major planets and comets are already taken. We’ve...